A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 125

Cousin?!

Cordy flinched while she was still in John’s arms, and he clearly felt her move!

“Come here,” John then told Zoe.

Zoe did so tentatively with an unsteady gait. Though her cheeks were flushed from alcohol, she looked utterly afraid, like a child about to ask their parents for forgiveness.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt you making out,” she said with a wounded tone. “I just needed to pee.”

On the other hand, although Cordy had been resistant toward being intimate with John, she was left so utterly awkward she buried her head within John’s embrace, too ashamed to show her face. John certainly knew that Cordy was embarrassed, but he was not letting her off the hook either. He pressed, “And what do you call my grandfather?”

“John, you’re scaring me.” Zoe’s pupils were dilating–did he somehow lose every bit of intelligence from making out?!

Still, seeing the serious look from her cousin, she had to answer honestly. “Grandfather.”

and asked Cordy, who was still hiding her face, “So? Do you understand the connection between

he bit her. Still, she nodded without looking

certificate as well, Ms. Sachs?”

head, even as Zoe was left even more puzzled

two?” Zoe could not help

misunderstood

blinked as he suddenly felt a dainty hand

also looked up from his chest, her

was more than enough

were curling up and she could clearly feel it on her palm along with his warmth–as if she was being

lips, Zoe was perplexed by their curious interaction. “What on earth are

can go now,” John told

at that–was

you leaving?” John said then, his tone a little

went without saying that Zoe was scared of him, even as a